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A microorganism is a living thing so small that your eyes cannot see it. You need a microscope. Bacteria are microorganisms. So are many yeasts and other tiny fungi, and many tiny living things in water. Viruses are often put in the same conversation, though people who study life do not all agree that a virus is truly alive. They live almost everywhere: in soil, in the sea, on your skin, in food, and inside your body. Most do not hurt you. Some in your gut even help you with food. Some make you ill. In class and in careful writing, microorganism is the proper word. In everyday English people often say when they mean the ones that make you sick, or as a shorter twin. is the looser, scare-word; it does not cover the helpful ones.
微生物
組成From micro- (very small) + organism (a living thing).
同家族的字
- organismthe living-thing word this is built on
- microscopeshares micro-; the tool you need to see these
- microbeshares micro-; a shorter everyday word for much the same living things
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
microorganismnoun/ˌmaɪ.kɹəʊˈɔː.ɡəˌnɪz.m̩/
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biologymicrobiologynatural-sciencesAn organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye; especially, a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.
- The cud is then reswallowed by the ruminant and further digested by specialized microorganisms that live in the rumen.
- Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。